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Re: [PHP-DEV] Bug #20460 (Feature Request) From: Stig S. Bakken (ssb <email protected>)
Date: 11/30/02

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Derick Rethans wrote:

> On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Sara Pollita Golemon wrote:
>
> > User complains that maximum length of a line used by fscanf is too short
> > (he has lines > 1600 chars). Looking at file.h I agree (it's only 512).
> >
> > The user requested two options:
> >
> > 1) Add an optional length field.
> > No way to do that without breaking parameter list. :(
>
> We can't really do that, users will get pissed :)
>
> >
> > 2) Increase to a larger arbitrary number.
> > This simply has the problem that it may prove too short eventually as well.
>
> Yeah, IMO it doesn't solve anything.
>
> >
> > Plus I came up with a third option:
> >
> > 3) Create an .ini entry to specify the maximum length used.
> > I think this has the best overall return on it.
>
> I don't like us adding a new ini entry for this, I think we should try
> another option:
>
> 4) Make sure we can use fscanf on a dynamically sized buffer. This will
> definitely the hardest solution, but also the most beautiful one.

[4] is definitely the best option. formatted_print.c already does
something similar.

 - Stig 

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